A
former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, operates at least 15 accounts with
GTBank and two with Diamond Bank, the anti-graft agency, EFCC, implied in a
statement on Monday evening.
The commission said
this in response to Mr. Fani-Kayode’s claim that it tried to arrest his wife
and toddler in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
Mr. Fani-Kayode
admitted that the commission had frozen several accounts belonging to him and
his wife, Chikwendu Sonia.
“In an attempt to
starve and harass me and my family all my accounts and wife’s accounts have
been frozen,” the opposition politician said.
He said his wife had
gone to withdraw money from another account when the EFCC allegedly tried to
arrest her.
“This was an account
that has 200,000 naira in it and that has never had more than 500,000.
“She has operated it
since 2005 and she stopped using it in 2013. The account has no connection with
me and I did not know it existed till today,” he said, accusing the EFCC of
witchunting him for opposing the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The EFCC, however,
disputed that claim, saying the account had a balance of over N2 million.
The EFCC also denied arresting or detaining Mr. Fani-Kayode’s
wife or kid.
-Premium Times
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